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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Precious wonder about her second baby?
(a) If the baby will look like her father
(b) If the baby will be retarded
(c) If the baby will like her
(d) If the baby will be safe from her father

2. What does Ms. Rain ask Precious when Precious refers to her incest class as "insect"?
(a) If she has had her hearing checked
(b) If she knows the meaning of incest
(c) If she knows how to spell incest
(d) If she is dyslexic

3. What does Precious wake up to discover one evening at the temporary shelter?
(a) Someone stealing her shoes
(b) A fight that broke out over food
(c) Someone stealing Abdul
(d) Shouting and cussing

4. What does Precious' file say is the only thing she is not doing well with in school?
(a) Math
(b) Attendance
(c) Her TABE scores
(d) Her classmates

5. Who does Precious claim she feels like?
(a) Her father
(b) Little Mongo
(c) Her grandmother
(d) Her mother

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Precious nervous about when she enters the classroom on her first day at the Alternative School?

2. What does Ms. Rain tell Precious, following her startling discovery about herself and Abdul?

3. What subject did Precious once receive an A in?

4. In September 1988, what award does Precious receive from the city?

5. What is one of the reasons why Precious was held back in the second grade?

(see the answer key)

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